Kosmos 1958, a Taifun-1 (Vektor) active radar-calibration target satellite built by Yuzhnoye, launched from Plesetsk on a Kosmos-3M booster; the roughly 500 kg, 2-meter solar-covered sphere calibrated Soviet early-warning radar and decayed in March 1989.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 570 kg
- Flight
- 354th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 14 July 1988, 11:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1988-060
- Launches in 1988
- 63rd of 121
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